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Mark CarrollI remember being disappointed by Cambridge's city library in the 90's. But, yeah, we live in Perth & Kinross which has its main branch in Perth and satellite libraries around the county, and I...

TMINEIt's been a while, but when I used to use UK libraries, there was a borough-wide pool of books, so if one library didn't have a book, it could still request it from another library. I used to request...

Mark CarrollI realized in the first episode they were mostly Americans, as Dirk mentioned his accent, then I forgot that too. An awkward side effect of my having lived many years in the US and having US-accented...

Mark CarrollAt a fee, I'm sure! Though now I have submitted it as an idea for a suggested purchase. (Or I can just wait until I finally move back to the US again where libraries tend to actually have many books!)

TMINEDirk Gently: I'm assuming the US version on Netflix, not the BBC Four version? It feels - to encapsulate it in a single sentence - exactly like what Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency would have...